income mobility in Malaysia in 2004-16. On aggregate, there were large reductions in chronic poverty and increases in …. Further, the poverty and income dynamics differ notably across geographic dimensions. Such disparities are most striking when …This study employs a synthetic panel approach based on nationally representative micro-level data to track poverty and …

The small-area estimation technique developed for producing poverty maps has been applied in a large number of …-area estimation methodology could significantly over-state the precision of local-level estimates of poverty, if underlying … conditions that have been argued to be essential for the method, confidence intervals for the poverty estimates also appear to be …

produce spatially disaggregated poverty and inequality estimates. To test the method, they compare predicted welfare … poverty measures and lower for inequality measures. …

diversification could thus yield significant returns in terms of declining poverty and increased income mobility. The evidence from … not only increasing incomes and reducing poverty, but appears as well to be breaking down long-standing barriers to … Palanpur also shows, however, that at the village-level a significant increase in income inequality has accompanied …

Using recently completed "poverty maps" for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact on … poverty of transferring an exogenously given budget to geographically defined subgroups of the population according to their … relative poverty status. They find large gains from targeting smaller administrative units, such as districts or villages. But …

Panel data conventionally underpin the analysis of poverty mobility over time. However, such data are not readily … paper proposes a method to construct synthetic panel data from cross sections which can provide point estimates of poverty … mobility. In contrast to traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty …

This paper uses small area estimation techniques to update Vietnam's province and district-level poverty map to 2009 …. It finds that poverty rates continue to be highest in the northern and central mountainous regions, where ethnic … minorities make up a large fraction of the population. Poverty has fallen in most provinces and districts over this decade, but …